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The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], One hundred dollars Reward. (search)
Robbery. --On Saturday night, Augustus Staples, a well-known free negro huckster in the Second Market, was knocked down when near the corner of Third and Baker streets by three Yankee deserters, and then robbed of about fifteen hundred dollars in Confederate money. Staples had been at the house of a Mrs. Hulcher, on Third street, a few doors from Leigh, where he met with the three Yankees,dentifying those who had robbed him. The three fellows were soon pointed out to the officers by Staples, and approached by them on the subject. They readily acknowledged being with the sable huckste on the night before; but indignantly denied any participation in the robbery. In company with Staples, they said they walked to the corner of Duval and Third streets, where they left him, and proceeded to their quarters at the stable-yard. Although Staples was positive that these were the men who robbed him, yet, being a negro, and therefore incompetent to testify against white men, the offic